Amazon S3 Contract Job Trends in London

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Amazon S3 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 135 188
Rank change year-on-year +12 +53 +29
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 414 259 225
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.20% 2.11% 1.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.22% 4.90% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 197 162
10th Percentile £356 £400 £363
25th Percentile £456 £478 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year - +7.84% -15.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £629
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £38.13 -
25th Percentile £61.00 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +44.86% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £50.94 -
90th Percentile - £53.38 -
England median hourly rate £81.00 £46.25 -
% change year-on-year +75.14% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
London

Amazon S3 falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 7,932 5,284 6,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.09% 43.04% 39.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,446 3,584 5,084
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £780
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 63 68
10th Percentile £20.84 £22.60 £17.32
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% +23.08% -51.63%
75th Percentile £56.00 £48.13 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.40 £72.50 £55.75
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +54.90% +18.60% -38.57%

Amazon S3
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon S3 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Amazon S3 job vacancy trend in London

Amazon S3
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Amazon S3.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Amazon S3

Amazon S3
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon S3 in London over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon S3 in London

Amazon S3
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Amazon S3.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Amazon S3

Amazon S3
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon S3 within the London region over the 6 months to 13 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -12 41 £550 -12.00% 17
South London +16 36 £500 -33.33%
West London -8 23 £625 -16.67% 4
East London - 2 £425 - 1
Amazon S3
England

Amazon S3
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 51 (12.32%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (8.21%) Apache Spark
3 31 (7.49%) Confluence
4 25 (6.04%) Apache
5 10 (2.42%) nginx
6 8 (1.93%) SAS
7 4 (0.97%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.72%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.24%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.24%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 10 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.45%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.24%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 410 (99.03%) AWS
2 262 (63.29%) AWS Lambda
2 262 (63.29%) Serverless
3 135 (32.61%) Amazon EC2
4 106 (25.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 86 (20.77%) Amazon ECS
6 85 (20.53%) GitHub
7 83 (20.05%) AWS CloudFormation
8 81 (19.57%) Amazon EKS
9 78 (18.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 63 (15.22%) Azure
11 62 (14.98%) GitHub Actions
12 50 (12.08%) Amazon SQS
12 50 (12.08%) Snowflake
13 48 (11.59%) AWS Step Functions
14 47 (11.35%) dbt
15 40 (9.66%) Power Platform
16 39 (9.42%) Amazon Kinesis
17 35 (8.45%) GCP
18 33 (7.97%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.56%) DNS
2 20 (4.83%) Firewall
3 14 (3.38%) TCP/IP
4 12 (2.90%) VPN
5 10 (2.42%) Network Security
5 10 (2.42%) OpenVPN
6 4 (0.97%) NAS
6 4 (0.97%) SAN
6 4 (0.97%) WAN
7 3 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.48%) BGP
8 2 (0.48%) Internet
8 2 (0.48%) Multicast
8 2 (0.48%) OSPF
8 2 (0.48%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.24%) 4G
9 1 (0.24%) 5G
9 1 (0.24%) DHCP
9 1 (0.24%) SSL
9 1 (0.24%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (24.40%) Amazon Athena
2 96 (23.19%) Amazon RDS
3 76 (18.36%) Amazon Redshift
4 53 (12.80%) PostgreSQL
5 51 (12.32%) DynamoDB
6 40 (9.66%) Power BI
7 34 (8.21%) Data Lake
8 33 (7.97%) Amazon Aurora
9 30 (7.25%) Data Warehouse
10 26 (6.28%) Tableau
11 21 (5.07%) BigQuery
11 21 (5.07%) Metadata
12 19 (4.59%) SQL Server
13 18 (4.35%) Apache Iceberg
13 18 (4.35%) OLTP
14 17 (4.11%) MongoDB
14 17 (4.11%) NoSQL
14 17 (4.11%) Snowflake Schema
15 15 (3.62%) Data Vault
16 14 (3.38%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 88 (21.26%) Git
2 75 (18.12%) GitLab
3 72 (17.39%) Jenkins
4 44 (10.63%) JIRA
5 16 (3.86%) Bitbucket
6 13 (3.14%) JUnit
7 12 (2.90%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.93%) Mockito
9 7 (1.69%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.69%) Cypress.io
10 6 (1.45%) Artifactory
10 6 (1.45%) Postman
11 5 (1.21%) Maven
12 4 (0.97%) Bitbucket Server
12 4 (0.97%) DbUnit
12 4 (0.97%) jMock
13 3 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.72%) Selenium
13 3 (0.72%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.72%) Vite
General
1 107 (25.85%) Social Skills
2 85 (20.53%) Finance
3 65 (15.70%) Public Sector
4 34 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (6.28%) Banking
6 17 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (2.42%) Front Office
8 9 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.45%) Law
9 6 (1.45%) Military
10 4 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.72%) Back Office
11 3 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.72%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.48%) Billing
12 2 (0.48%) Games
12 2 (0.48%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.48%) Local Government
12 2 (0.48%) Marketing
12 2 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 116 (28.02%) Data Engineer
2 67 (16.18%) AWS Engineer
3 62 (14.98%) Developer
4 61 (14.73%) Lead
5 56 (13.53%) Architect
5 56 (13.53%) Senior
6 34 (8.21%) DevOps Engineer
7 30 (7.25%) AWS Architect
8 26 (6.28%) Cloud Engineer
9 24 (5.80%) Senior Data Engineer
10 23 (5.56%) AWS Developer
11 22 (5.31%) AWS Data Engineer
11 22 (5.31%) Lead Data Engineer
12 20 (4.83%) Data Architect
12 20 (4.83%) Software Engineer
13 18 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
13 18 (4.35%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 18 (4.35%) Snowflake Engineer
14 17 (4.11%) Python Developer
15 16 (3.86%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (16.91%) Kafka
2 42 (10.14%) PySpark
2 42 (10.14%) React
3 36 (8.70%) REST
4 34 (8.21%) RESTful
5 24 (5.80%) Spring
5 24 (5.80%) Spring Boot
6 22 (5.31%) OpenID
7 21 (5.07%) Node.js
7 21 (5.07%) OAuth
8 20 (4.83%) FastAPI
9 16 (3.86%) AngularJS
10 14 (3.38%) Next.js
11 13 (3.14%) AWS CDK
11 13 (3.14%) Flask
11 13 (3.14%) Pandas
12 12 (2.90%) boto
12 12 (2.90%) Great Expectations
12 12 (2.90%) PyTorch
13 10 (2.42%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 109 (26.33%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.07%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (4.59%) Product Ownership
4 7 (1.69%) Hedge funds
5 6 (1.45%) Distributed Computing
5 6 (1.45%) PACS
5 6 (1.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 6 (1.45%) Virtual Team
6 5 (1.21%) Clustering
6 5 (1.21%) Fixed Income
6 5 (1.21%) Legacy Code
6 5 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.21%) NHS
6 5 (1.21%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (0.97%) Management Information System
7 4 (0.97%) Reference Data
7 4 (0.97%) Replication
7 4 (0.97%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 39 (9.42%) Linux
2 12 (2.90%) Unix
3 6 (1.45%) Windows
4 5 (1.21%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.24%) Android
7 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.24%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (57.00%) CI/CD
2 166 (40.10%) DevOps
3 162 (39.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 117 (28.26%) Agile
5 102 (24.64%) Data Engineering
6 96 (23.19%) Analytics
7 89 (21.50%) Data Pipeline
8 86 (20.77%) ETL
9 84 (20.29%) Data Modelling
10 79 (19.08%) AI
11 74 (17.87%) Containerisation
12 61 (14.73%) Microservices
12 61 (14.73%) Observability
13 56 (13.53%) Machine Learning
14 54 (13.04%) Event-Driven
15 53 (12.80%) Migration
16 52 (12.56%) Business Intelligence
16 52 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
17 51 (12.32%) Test Automation
18 45 (10.87%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 265 (64.01%) Python
2 167 (40.34%) SQL
3 69 (16.67%) Java
4 40 (9.66%) C#
5 37 (8.94%) TypeScript
6 29 (7.00%) Bash
7 28 (6.76%) JavaScript
8 20 (4.83%) PowerShell
9 13 (3.14%) Scala
10 11 (2.66%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.45%) Bicep
11 6 (1.45%) SAS Macro
12 5 (1.21%) Groovy
13 4 (0.97%) Go
13 4 (0.97%) Perl
13 4 (0.97%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.72%) C
15 1 (0.24%) COBOL
15 1 (0.24%) SPARQL
15 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 127 (30.68%) Security Cleared
2 114 (27.54%) SC Cleared
3 39 (9.42%) AWS Certification
4 14 (3.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 13 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (2.90%) Degree
7 10 (2.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 9 (2.17%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 6 (1.45%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.97%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.72%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.72%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.48%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.48%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.48%) PMP
14 1 (0.24%) SAFe Agilist
14 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (15.70%) Data Quality
2 18 (4.35%) QA
3 15 (3.62%) GDPR
4 8 (1.93%) SLA
5 7 (1.69%) PMO
6 6 (1.45%) ISO 20022
6 6 (1.45%) NIST
7 4 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.97%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.48%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.24%) GRC
9 1 (0.24%) IFRS
9 1 (0.24%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 110 (26.57%) Docker
2 10 (2.42%) Squid
3 7 (1.69%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.72%) Postfix
5 2 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 201 (48.55%) Terraform
2 80 (19.32%) Kubernetes
3 47 (11.35%) Grafana
4 39 (9.42%) Prometheus
5 24 (5.80%) Ansible
6 17 (4.11%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (2.17%) FortiGate
8 7 (1.69%) Consul
9 6 (1.45%) Kibana
9 6 (1.45%) Puppet
10 4 (0.97%) Argo
10 4 (0.97%) Salt
11 3 (0.72%) Istio
12 2 (0.48%) Karpenter
12 2 (0.48%) Packer
12 2 (0.48%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.24%) Control-M
13 1 (0.24%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.24%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 32 (7.73%) Databricks
2 23 (5.56%) Google
3 20 (4.83%) Microsoft
4 15 (3.62%) Splunk
5 13 (3.14%) Red Hat
6 11 (2.66%) Atlassian
6 11 (2.66%) Dynatrace
6 11 (2.66%) Informatica
6 11 (2.66%) Oracle
7 10 (2.42%) ServiceNow
8 9 (2.17%) Confluent
9 7 (1.69%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.45%) Denodo
11 5 (1.21%) AVEVA
11 5 (1.21%) Teradata
12 4 (0.97%) IBM
12 4 (0.97%) Jaspersoft
12 4 (0.97%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.97%) SAP
12 4 (0.97%) Sybase